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Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.
— Laura Anne Gilman
It does not do to trust people too much.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The home is the center and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
When we live with a memory we live with a corpse; the impact of the experience has changed us once but can never change us again.
— Dorothy Gilman
It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.
— Laura Anne Gilman
Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly!
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
If there's one thing Robert had learned in three weeks at Lovecraft Middle School, it's that nothing was impossible.
— Charles Gilman
The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.
— Dorothy Gilman
The people people have for friends Your common sense appall
But the people people marry
Are the queerest folk of all. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A concept is stronger than a fact.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able, - to dress and entertain, and order things
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Children put everything in perspective, they remind you of what's important, you see the world anew through there eyes.
— Priscilla Gilman
While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
That's the thing about luxury, darlings. The moment you become accustomed to it, it is no longer a luxury but a necessity. People forget this.
— Susan Jane Gilman
Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Before 'Moonrise,' I never thought I would be in a movie where I would be struck by lightning.
— Jared Gilman
Until mothers earn their livings, women will not
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living."
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
You haven't been planting seeds of insurrection, have you, Duchess?""Well, it's a change from planting geraniums," she retorted. — Dorothy Gilman
Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.
— Laura Anne Gilman
New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I am really indoors-y. I am a video game and movie buff, and this keeps me in my little boy cave.
— Jared Gilman
It's compassion that makes gods of us.
— Dorothy Gilman
The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies.
— Dorothy Gilman
Besides, nobody ever loves you the way you want.
— Susan Jane Gilman
I was madly in love with not so much what was there as with what I supposed to be there.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it; why should a woman?
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat, the end of something never felt.
— Dorothy Gilman
The best things arrive on time.
— Dorothy Gilman
I'm perfectly natural the way I am. Why can't you humans ever understand that I might not want to be afflicted with gender?
— Carolyn Ives Gilman
When a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.
— Dorothy Gilman
Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I think getting up every morning is the most amazing thing any of us do. We know what's out there, and yet we keep going.
— Laura Anne Gilman
Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history.
— Laura Anne Gilman
Woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I discovered I loved acting at a Summer Camp. That's when I really realised that I enjoyed it and that I wanted to try it.
— Jared Gilman
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead.
— Richard Gilman
I have opinions, sure, but they're mine, not something I'm going to insist everyone else take as any kind of gospel.
— Laura Anne Gilman
When we use our past merely as a guide-book, and concentrate our noble emotions on the present and future, we shall improve more rapidly.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.
— Laura Anne Gilman
Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
You're an artist when you're writing, a businessperson the rest of the time.
— Laura Anne Gilman
I'm kind of a huge movie buff and a video game nerd person.
— Jared Gilman
But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Clowns - feh! All that ghastly, forced gaiety, worse than New Year's Eve.
— Susan Jane Gilman
If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.
— Dorothy Gilman
Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Love grows by service.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Those who too patiently serve as props sometimes underrate the possibilities of the vine.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Life is a verb, not a noun.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I was always a very indoor videogame nerd movie buff ... Now I've come to appreciate Scouts and the outdoors.
— Jared Gilman
I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Taking advantage of me in my sleep, archangel? Gin — Sarah Purdy Gilman
The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
There's heaven. There it is. What more do we mean? People, free to come together, and in beauty - for growth.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I have preferred chloroform to cancer
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I always lock the door when I creep by daylight.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Call it not paranoia, but caution.
— Laura Anne Gilman
I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that someone needs.
— Laura Anne Gilman
A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Sure, beauty has the power to excite men. But so does a box of donuts.
— Susan Jane Gilman
